10 Free Trees! *Offer valid in Sacramento only.

Residents of Sacrameto, California can get 10 free trees by calling their local utility company. The program aims to reduce temperatures in the city via the shade the trees provide. In the last 16 years 375,000 trees have been given away (with another 4 million to go!). From the Washington Post article:

Most American cities have shrinking tree canopies in relation to their growth. That's because of inadequate budgets to maintain older trees and a failure to plant shade trees in new residential and commercial developments, according to federal experts, tree-planting organizations and scholars of urban ecology.
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Sacramento's shade crusade easily pays for itself, with summertime energy savings about double what SMUD spends on trees each year. As they mature, trees already planted by the utility are expected to save enough electricity to power about 14,000 homes.

Read the entire article here.